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Eclipse Now Runs On Jikes Research Virtual Machine

Posted by timothy on from the joiks dept.

jscribner writes "IBM reached another key milestone in open source: Eclipse, a completely open source platform, now runs on the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM) improving its teaching/research potential because it provides the community with a significant open source Java benchmark that runs on top of a flexible open testbed (Jikes RVM). The testbed runs on Linux and uses the GNU Classpath implementation of Java libraries (read: complete open source solution). Although Jikes RVM was developed by IBM researchers at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, it was donated to the community in October 2001 and now has a steering committee and core team that include both IBMers and other university researchers."

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  1. why is this great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ok, so i program in java and i think i have unknowingly actually used jikes...

    but someone please explain the implications...
    - speed?
    - open source?
    - portability?

    1. Re:why is this great by dhk42 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The jikes that you "have unknowingly acually used" was most likely just the compiler (which has been available for ages and is excellent).

      It probably was not the virtual machine described here.

  2. Re:well, this is interesting by saugart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > > Now if they can just get x86 binaries to run on my P4, we'll be set! > Hmm, you must be using Windows: I assume by P4 the author meant "Power 4", the name Apple uses to describe a generation of PowerPC processors.

  3. Re:IBM PR by daveho · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It's just yet another IBM PR fluff piece.
    I disagree. IBM has put a huge amount of time and resources into free software that lots of people use: Eclipse, Linux, etc. The effort to get Eclipse to work on Jikes RVM gives users a world-class Java IDE which is entirely based on open source software. One of the most interesting things about Eclipse on Jikes RVM is that it does not require any changes to Eclipse; the porting effort consistent entirely of fixing bugs and implementing missing functionality in Jikes RVM and its libraries.

    Disclaimer: As an intern at IBM, I was one of the people involved in the effort to get Eclipse to run on Jikes RVM. I don't work for them at the moment.